Social housing in Windsor and Maidenhead

12.6% of households in Windsor and Maidenhead are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is below the UK average of 17.5%.

12.6%Social housing
7,645Social homes
60,889All households
Windsor and Maidenhead12.6%
UK average17.5%

How much social housing is there in Windsor and Maidenhead?

Windsor and Maidenhead ranks 274th of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 60,889 households, 7,645 are social homes (12.6%) — renting from the council or a housing association.

How does Windsor and Maidenhead compare with the UK average?

At -4.9 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Windsor and Maidenhead sits below the national level.

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Windsor and Maidenhead at a glance

Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Windsor and Maidenhead.

Schools

On the Department for Education's register, Windsor and Maidenhead has 83 schools — 66 state-funded and 17 independent. That includes 46 primary and 14 secondary schools. Of the 25 with a published Ofsted grade, 84% are Good or Outstanding.

Nurseries

There are 116 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Windsor and Maidenhead, offering about 4,358 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.

Deprivation

The median neighbourhood in Windsor and Maidenhead sits in decile 9 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 0% of its 89 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.

House prices

The median neighbourhood price is about £5,531 per m², from Land Registry sold prices matched to EPC floor areas.

Broadband

Median available download speed is about 1,000 Mbit/s — what can be ordered, not what residents have bought (Ofcom Connected Nations).

Explore Windsor and Maidenhead

See Windsor and Maidenhead through the other lenses on the interactive map — house prices, recorded crime and anti-social behaviour, road & rail noise, deprivation and broadband:

Which areas are similar to Windsor and Maidenhead?

“Social housing” means households renting from a council/local authority or a housing association, counted on census day (2021 in England, Wales & Northern Ireland; 2022 in Scotland). Local-authority figures are aggregated by this site from small-area Census data and may differ from official totals; Scotland reports a combined social-rented figure. Sources: ONS Census 2021 (TS054), National Records of Scotland Census 2022 (UV404) and NISRA Census 2021, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See the full notes and disclaimer.
Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).